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Giant Orb Weaver / Travel Spider


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Art: https://www.deviantart.com/baron-engel/art/Golden-Orb-Weaver-study-01-852002051 by Baron Engel

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Wild: Mongolarachne can easily traverse the caverns she calls home, being able to climb every wall with ease, even travelling over natural and artificial Ziplines. She can even weave her own by creating thick silk strings that can be climbed both horizontally and vertically.

the females grow much large than the males. Males mainly wander the ground scavenging for food while the females build nests on the ceilings

Living in the Luminous marshlands of Abberation, Mongolarachne jurassica has developed a Bioluminescent silk which she uses to weave gigantic glowing nets. these nets consist of about a dozen strings hanging from the ceiling similar to the nets of the Arachnocampa luminosa.

These Nets attract a lot of creatures because of their Rythmic glow. If anything comes in contact with its strings it will immediately be stuck and the Nephila will rapidly pull the string up to devour her prey.

Domesticated If a tribe manages to tame one of these spiders,they will find themselves with the most versatile mount inside the caverns of Abberation. Using her ability to shoot silk ziplines and climbing walls makes them a perfect travel mount. I’ve seen some survivors experimenting with the females venom, using it to brew some sorts of medication. This medication allegedly accelerates bloodflow, increasing ones stamina and letting wounds heal faster.

Breeding Nephilas would be a difficult task, seeing as even tamed females still practice cannibalsim if they are too hungry. Beceause the female lays multiple eggs at once she gets exhausted quick, causing her to consume her mate if not kept saturated enough.

 

 

 

Based off and realted to the Golden Orb Weaver The Nephila would have a very strong and special net (in this case instead of being golden it would glow) and has adapted to living in the glowing depths of abberation. Like in Real Life the females would be a lot larger than the males. the males would be arround araneo size while the females should be the same size as rockdrakes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolarachne

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https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnocampa_luminosa

Glowworm net as an inspiration for the glowing nets the nephila would produce

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